Err that's perfectly normal. Linux does buffering/caching meaning that it
will keep all files/libraries it has opened/read will remain cached in the
memory until the memory is needed otherwise.
Try running 'free' (without quotes) you'll see something like this:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 126980 124180 2800 0 11120 59596
-/+ buffers/cache: 53464 73516
Swap: 498004 38044 459960
You'll see total, used, free, shared, buffers, cached. As you can see with me
I have 126,9MB (the memory that the kernel uses isn't counted) from which
124,1 is used and 2,8 is free, however 11,1 from that is buffer and 59,5!!!!!
is cached, as you will notice you have a bar called -/+ buffers/cache now if
you'll look there you'll see that the actual memory needed is 53,4MB and that
73,5 is still free if you don't count the cache and buffers.
Regards
On Monday 01 October 2001 14:35, Baba Bogdan stuffed this into my mailbox:
> greetings :)))
>
> People anoather question , i noticed that on my slackware 8.0 box
> with kernel 2.4.6 i usualy have around 5 M RAM memory left i upgraded from
> 256 to 512 (SDRAM PC-133) and still the same problem the server restarts
> 128 RAM used and a LOT of spare RAM left , after 10 hours i have no RAM
> (3-4) left . This happends even with kernel 2.2.19 .Its a buffer problem or
> what , i realy cand figure out what is the problem .
> Can someone guide me to find an answer to this "problem"
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Baba Bogdan
> -System Administrator
> -CDS NETWORK, Corpus Christi, TX, USA
